Waiting and Self-Control Desk-Strip Cue Cards

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages

• 12 waiting and self-control cues, cut apart and printed across 3 ready-made cue sets of 4 (Cue Set A: wait, wait in line, quiet voice, raise hand; Cue Set B: count, timer, watch, read; Cue Set C: draw, stand, sit, calm), each set printed twice as two identical 2.75-inch wide strips so one sheet gives a desk copy and a spare
• Every cue set twice: a full-color strip and a black-and-white ink-saver strip for a photocopier or a second adult
• An "at a glance" picture row above the cut pieces on every strip page, so the four cues in that set are visible before any cutting happens
• A blank strip template: two identical 2.75-inch strips, four type-in lines each, for any waiting cue the three ready-made sets do not cover
• A how-to page: cutting the sheet, taping it to the desk, offering a cue, what to do when a wait does not go smoothly, picking which cues travel on this desk, one strip for several adults, what this strip is and is not, sending it home and handing it off, picking a first set of cues, and two or more strips on one desk
• A Waiting Strategy Log (16 rows: date, time, cue used, how it happened, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a times-practiced-per-week graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one school day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with six home cues (cut apart), the how-to line, and a week of home tries to initial
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional, specials teacher or substitute uses the same desk strip the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (what to say when offering a cue, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 10 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

The collection's Waiting and Self-Control Cue Cards with Log already sells these twelve cues as a wall chart and a practice board. This single is a format fork for the student who sits at a desk and cannot get up to a board every time a wait starts: the same twelve cues, cut to a narrow strip that tapes along the edge of the desk instead, built from the ground up at the strip's own width (not a shrunk card).

The Twelve Cues, In Three Printed Sets

• Cue Set A (4 cues) — wait, wait in line, quiet voice, raise hand
• Cue Set B (4 cues) — count, timer, watch, read
• Cue Set C (4 cues) — draw, stand, sit, calm

Every word and picture is imported unchanged from the collection's own Waiting and Self-Control Cue Cards with Log, which has already passed a nameability read in both the color and ink-saver sets; no new picture enters the collection with this product. The three sets are a printing convenience, not a sequence — every cue is interchangeable, and a page's own text says so: tape whichever cues this student uses, in any order.

Why Two Identical Strips On Every Sheet

Each cue set prints as two identical cut-apart copies, side by side on one sheet: one tapes to the desk, and the second is a ready spare for a different desk, a backpack, or to send home on the family page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank strip, or print and use a pen. The strip sheets print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a way to tape a set of waiting and self-control cues where a student is already sitting, and for an adult to write down which cue was used and how. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how the strip is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals and related-service providers who want a waiting and self-control reference within arm's reach of one desk instead of mounted on a wall, plus the case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This single sits alongside Waiting and Self-Control Cue Cards with Log, Desk-Taped Mini Schedule Strip, and Visual Supports Starter Set FREE in the Visual Supports Collection; more picture-card sets — schedule cards, routine strips, choice boards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.